Council votes to spend $29,000 more on NBA team quest

11:20 PM,
Dec. 16, 2010

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The Louisville Metro Council voted to pay an additional $29,000 to attorney J. Bruce Miller to support his quest to bring to town a National Basketball Association team that would play at Freedom Hall.

The expenditure will be on top of $60,000 previously appropriated - and apparently already spent - to Miller in the current city budget.

Council member Dan Johnson, D-21st District, who has crusaded for Louisville to have an NBA team since at least the mid-1990s, said he initially tried to get the city to budget $200,000 to support Miller's pursuit. ...